US Patent Issued to HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Startup method of semiconductor transformer, and converter using same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,367, issued on July 22, was assigned to HYOSUNG HEAVY INDUSTRIES Corp. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Startup method of semiconductor transformer, and converter using same" was invented by Hae Won Seo (Seoul, South Korea), Byeng Joo Byen (Suwon-si, South Korea), Jae Hyuk Kim (Gwacheon-si, South Korea) and Sung Joo Kim (Goyang-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A startup method of a semiconductor transformer, according to the present invention, comprises: a link capacitor initiating step in which a control unit controls a link capacitor voltage of a link capacitor between an AC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter connected thereto ...